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"We are confident in our marks and the reasonableness of our valuation methods. We have a high degree of certainty in what we have booked to date." -- CEO Martin Sullivan, Dec. 5, 2007

Outside auditors had warned Sullivan a week earlier of possible "material weaknesses" in AIG Financial Product's accounting.

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